Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 21 February 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 21 February 1983

0830

Hair

1000-1030

Media

1030

Sir A. Parsons

1100

Meeting of Ministers re water strike [[S/ Trans (David Howell), Ch/ Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), S/ Scot (George Younger), S/ Wales (Nicholas Edwards), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan), S/ Emp (Norman Tebbit), RTA (Sir Robert Armstrong) & J. Sparrow].] [Handwritten original has ‘Re Serpell or Water’, with a tick over the latter. It seems contingency prepared for either, but water prevailed]

1200

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling]

1215

Chief Whip [Michael Jopling], Home Secretary [Willie Whitelaw], Lord President [John Biffen] and Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1245 for 1300

Lunch for King Hussein

1500

David Wolfson re Lord Sieff's initiation [?sic: invitation]

1615

Meeting of Ministers re Social Security matters [Home Sec (Willie Whitelaw), Chief Whip (Michael Jopling), Lord President (John Biffen), S/ DHSS (Norman Fowler), Chief Sec (Leon Brittan), Chairman (Cecil Parkinson), Ch / Ex (Sir Geoffrey Howe), Peter Gregson]

1700

Rehearsal for Institute of Directors speech

1730

Chancellor [Sir Geoffrey Howe] + Sir Robert Armstrong re Senior Staff appts.

1800-1915

Meeting and drinks for Junior Ministers

Dine Flat

2200

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MT Engagement Diary